London Quotes
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Irvine Welsh -
I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
Olivia Colman
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
Oxana Chusovitina -
I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. Thats just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
Edie Campbell -
I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
Harley Viera-Newton -
London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
Lapo Elkann -
When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
Graham Coxon Blur
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I like where I live here, in London.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.
Ed Weeks -
I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.
Caitriona Balfe -
If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
Edgar Wright -
I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
Sally Phillips -
I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
Natalie Dormer
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Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
Naftali Bennett -
Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
P. Chidambaram -
I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
Natalie Cole -
I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
Faye Marsay -
The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.
Kylie Minogue -
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
Hannah Simone
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
Imelda Staunton -
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
Zaha Hadid -
So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
Gary Oldman -
The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.
Zac Goldsmith